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2.1 The respondent was appointed as Postal Assistant on 21.8.1976. He when retired was Deputy Postmaster (Counter) HSG-I in Rajkot HO. His date of superannuation is 30.6.2015.

According to the respondent, in the department, there was no common date of increment. After the introduction of 6 th Central Pay Commission, the Central Government fixed 1st July of every year as the date of increment by amending Rule 10 of the Central Civil Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008 ("the Rules", for short). The Rule 10 has spoken of the date of next increment in the revised pay structure, which has come into being from 1.1.2006.

5. He has taken us through Rule 10 of the Rules, which speaks of uniform date of annual increment, which is 1st July of every year. It says that the employees completing six months and above in the revised pay structure as on 1st July, will be eligible to be granted the increment. The first increment, after fixation of pay as per the said Rules is on 1.1.2006 in the revised pay structure which shall need to be granted on 1.7.2006 for those employees for whom the date of next increment was between 1.7.2006 to 1.1.2007.

6. We notice the interpretation of Rule 10 of the Rules made by High Court of Madras in W.P. No.15372/2017, where the Court held from the factual details that the employee before it since had completed one full year service as on 30.6.2013, i.e. the date of which he was superannuated, but the increment fell due on 1.7.2013, on which date he was not in services and therefore, it interpreted that he shall have to be treated as having completed one full year of service, though the date of increment fell on the next day of his retirement. Accordingly, the court had allowed the petition and directed that the petitioner before the High Court of Madras be given one notional increment for the period from 1.7.2012 to 30.6.2013, on his having completed one full year of service.